The past few weeks alone also have seen new virtual tape library (VTL) products from Marlborough, Mass.-based Sepaton; Palo Alto, Calif.-based Data Domain; Fremont, Calif.-based 3PAR; and Melville, ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

The IT department at PinnacleHealth in Harrisburg, Pa., operates more than 300 servers, ensuring that applications are continuously available for 5,000 employees. But backing up eight terabytes of ...

When virtual tape arrived on the scene a few years ago, many storage managers dismissed it as a niche product not sturdy enough for enterprise-class backups. Now this New Data Center technology, which ...

Today, a great number of different storage mediums exist whose purpose is to retain information in some manner. One of the oldest data storage mediums, the tape, is a linear storage system that still ...

A storage array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks or SSDs while continuing to use the existing tape backup ...

Users of virtual tape got a boost this week with Bus-Tech Inc.’s introduction of the Mainframe Appliance for Storage for EMC Centera, which lets customers more quickly save and retrieve fixed content ...

Network Appliance, Inc. is collaborating with backup application vendors to integrate their solutions with NetApp NearStore VTL Shadow Tape technology. The integration will significantly accelerate ...

Despite its relatively slow speed and overall bulkiness, tape has its strengths. After all, it’s inexpensive compared with most disks, it’s portable and has been used in data centers for years. Still, ...